10 Facts About Fulufhelo Nelwamondo

Fulufhelo Nelwamondo is the youngest recipient of the Harvard-South Africa Fellowship Programme amongst other honours.

Fulufhelo Nelwamondo's interests include biometrics-based systems, data mining and machine learning tools.

Fulufhelo Nelwamondo attended Belemu Primary School and matriculated at Mbilwi Secondary School.

Fulufhelo Nelwamondo was accredited by the Engineering Council of South Africa in 2006 and obtained his PhD in 2008 under supervision of Tshilidzi Marwala.

Fulufhelo Nelwamondo is the chief executive officer of the National Research Foundation of South Africa.

Fulufhelo Nelwamondo joined the Modelling and Digital Science unit of the CSIR in 2008, and became acting director in 2014 and executive director in 2016; prior to 2008 he had been a principal researcher and a competence area manager for Information Security.

Fulufhelo Nelwamondo is a visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg and was listed as a Promising Young Researcher in UJ's list of NRF-rated researchers.

Fulufhelo Nelwamondo is a founding board member of the South African Young Academy of Science.

Fulufhelo Nelwamondo was an editor and a reviewer for a number of international journals and in programme committees of several international conferences.

Fulufhelo Nelwamondo has published over 100 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, conferences and book chapters.